March 6, 2018

After ISIS, what becomes of the fighters’ families?

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Brian Williamson | VOA

“Wedded to ISIS” is the story of a Syrian woman who fled Raqqa—the militants’ de-facto capital—with her husband, a former ISIS fighter. She speaks from a refugee camp while her husband is in prison. As she speaks, she attempts to distance herself from ISIS, saying her husband quit the group before they surrendered.

VOA foreign correspondent Heather Murdock and I translated the interview with the wife of a former ISIS fighter into a web comic.

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I helped script, design, illustrate and code the web comic. This was my first attempt at using The New York Times’ Adobe Illustrator plugin ai2html for creating responsive web comics. It was significantly easier to create organic layouts than using CSS alone.

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I am a graphic artist, interactive developer and designer for Voice of America. I design, illustrate, animate and write code to tell stories. VOA provides objective news and information in 45 languages to over 235 million people around the world every week. For 75 years, VOA has broadcast content that many people cannot get locally: objective news and information about the US, their region and the world.
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